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Obama’s Grab for New Spy Powers
• prisonplanet.comWith the Obama administration rivaling, even surpassing antidemocratic moves by the Bush regime to monitor and surveil the private communications of the American people, The New York Times reported last week that “federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet.”
Following closely on the heels of FBI raids on antiwar and international solidarity activists, the “change” administration now wants Congress to require all providers who enable communications “to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order.”
Times’ reporter Charlie Savage informs us that the administration will demand that software and communication providers build backdoors accessible to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, thus enabling spooks trolling “encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct ‘peer to peer’ messaging like Skype” the means “to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages.”
Calling new legislative strictures a “reasonable” and “necessary” tool for law enforcement that will “prevent the erosion of their investigative powers,” FBI mouthpiece, general counsel Valerie E. Caproni, told the Times, “We’re talking about lawfully authorized intercepts.”
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1 Comments in Response to Obama’s Grab for New Spy Powers
(2) Obama wants to effectively trash the Fourth Amendment, allowing the FBI Warrantless searches of all Internet Activity including emails. Obama is also supporting warrantless wiretapping of all telephone and other electronic communications. That will result in crushing free speech and expression, Citizens will be afraid to communicate by phone or email and will worry someone might communicate to them a statement or message that will cause their arrest if they don’t report it: